On 20 Jul 2006 11:30:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Leif Rundberget (as quoted by Joel C. Ewing) wrote: > >| Be careful with like terms between the PC(intel) world and the mainframe >| world. When someone says they have a 64-bit Intel server (Intel, >| Solaris, AMD, etc.), it does not mean that the server can access an >| address 64-bits long, the 64-bits refers to the width of the bus. So it >| can transfer 64-bits in parallel.
Since there are 64 bit versions of Windows, Linux and various flavors of Unix I find this hard to believe. >> rest snipped ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
